PeterNBiddle
Contributor
Chattertonism seems to be based on the notion that that we are each of us exclusively responsible for our own survival under the water, which is an ethically consistent philosophy. EG It doesn't ask that we simultaneously be totally responsible for our own health underwater while also suggesting we can look to others for survival.
Chattertonism is kind of like libertarianism. It's morally consistent and is probably demonstrably capable of an equivalent dive survival rate and yet for some of us it's also wrong.
As it turns out, it's not a philosophy I adhere to. I've shown a consistent willingness to increase the overall risk to my own life in order to help other people and that philosophy is with me under the water just as it is above.
This is first time since I joined that I've seen the DIR/GUE philosophy so seriously challenged as being impure or somehow morally or ethically flawed. Some of you are reacting to this better than others. I think this is a good oppty for DIR/GUE folks to think about their philosophy and how they talk about it. Maybe there is more than one defensible and morally consistent definition of "right".
Even as a mere whelp of a diver, I don't need any of you keeping me ignorant in order to protect me from taking on Chattertonism as my new dive philosophy. Suggesting otherwise is infantalizing and offensive. I ask - in fact I demand - to be allowed to make up my own mind.
Chattertonism is kind of like libertarianism. It's morally consistent and is probably demonstrably capable of an equivalent dive survival rate and yet for some of us it's also wrong.
As it turns out, it's not a philosophy I adhere to. I've shown a consistent willingness to increase the overall risk to my own life in order to help other people and that philosophy is with me under the water just as it is above.
This is first time since I joined that I've seen the DIR/GUE philosophy so seriously challenged as being impure or somehow morally or ethically flawed. Some of you are reacting to this better than others. I think this is a good oppty for DIR/GUE folks to think about their philosophy and how they talk about it. Maybe there is more than one defensible and morally consistent definition of "right".
Even as a mere whelp of a diver, I don't need any of you keeping me ignorant in order to protect me from taking on Chattertonism as my new dive philosophy. Suggesting otherwise is infantalizing and offensive. I ask - in fact I demand - to be allowed to make up my own mind.